Hello,
I've bought a storage SD card.
I wish to move the "My documents" folder to this card.
I 've created a "My documents" folder on the SD card, and moved the files BUT the new folder does not replace the original one, and exploring My Pocket PC/My documents leads me to the empty old folder.
Is there a way to improve ?
More generally, what's the best practices when equiped with a SD Card ?
Thanks,
Jean-Jacques
You can create a shortcut on the root of your device's memory ( \ ) and make that shortcut point to "\Storage card\My Documents"
Most programs require you to point the path to your SD card yourself under options. i.e. Notes, you'll need to choose Tools>Options and pick "save to storage card". And in your storage card, make sure there's no file with name like ignore_my_doc or similar, or it will save to your SD's root instead of your 'my documents' folder.
How do you create the shortcut on \ to point to the storage card?
I have moved my documents to the storage card, but I still have an empty my documents on the \ .
Can't seem to figure out how to create the shortcut link.
In Notes, I have set it under options to point to the SD card.
Use Resco Explorer or Total Commander to create the shortcut.
Total Commander is great & its free. Get it from here (http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm)
Turns out I had Total Commander and just didn't know how to make a shortcut. Figured that out.
Now I have a file My Documents.lnk in \, and a My Documents on \ that is empty (I delete it and reboot and it keeps coming back), and a file called Old My Documents in \ that only has a dir called Templates in it. I can't delete the Old dir or the Template dir, no matter how I try. (I had renamed the orignal My Documents to Old My Documents after copying the folder to the storage card).
Is this making sense? Thanks for your help.
Using Total Commander, click on the folder you want to create the shortcut for, then from the File menu, choose >>>>> then Create shortcut.. It will ask you for the destination location of the shortcut. Click ok.
I really don't know what's that Old My Documents folder.
Anyone knows a solution for this plz ? :roll:
Maybe you need a registry hack.
Thanks, I did figure out how to make the shortcut, but I just can't get rid of the old docs directory and it keeps creating a new my docs dir at \.
And although there is a shortcut in \ to \Storage Card\My Documents, the Notes don't sync with the SD card.
I have changed the option in Notes to look at \Storage Card\My Documents
Very Weird.
The built-in notes program is very dummy!
I stopped using it; because I found a much better one : PhatPad
By the way, storing notes on the storage card is really risky!
Did you hear about the well know SD card wipe problem?
It happens to a lot of people here in this forum..!
I had experienced that SD issue...but it was always backed up so it was just a pain in the arse. Once I upgraded to 2003SE, knock on my wooden head, it hasn't happened again.
I'll try the subsitute program. Thanks...this is all very strange.
PhatPad is really the best notes program ever 8)
Same Question
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Sorry about that...but I would also like to move My Documents...I'd like to put mine in 'Storage' (the built in Storage on the BA)
I've tried exporting the reg and replacing \My Documents with \Storage\My Documents...and then reimporting.
Some things now save in \Storage\My Documents...but...
* I can't get rid of the templates folder
* My Documents keeps comming back!
I have moved My Documents to the SD card.
I made the registry change pointing it to the SD card as well.
But I still get the My Documents dir coming back to the Main Memory every reset.
After reading more on this, and seeing the risks involved, I am now rethinking whether moving the docs to the storage card is such a good idea.
Malicious Microsoft?
Given the ability of some people to easily hack our computers, the only safe way of having documents on our PCs would be to create them on removeable media while off-line and remove it before going on-line again. Does Microsoft have a vested interest in making it so hard for users to do this and so easy for people to hack its products?
It is not rocket science (or even computer science) to request insertion of a "Documents" SD card if not present. It could also optionally automatically eject the SD card when all files on it were closed.
hi
is it possible to put the themes on storage card?
i am putting them on my documents this takes too much of my pda2k memory and when i remove them from my documents i can't find them in my today list so i can't choose any
thx for help
As far as I remember you can put them in the My Documents folder on the storage card.
i didn't find my documents file in storage card so i created it and copied all the themes in it but still i can't get them in my today list
any other solution
Try a soft reset. It should work. I've had mine (XDA IIs admittedly) running themes from both \Storage\My Documents and \Storage Card\My Documents
Try using TKCreater (free) from FunnySnake. It's basically a theme editor for ppc, so small and u can install it in storage card also. Open theme via the apps and press 'Activate'. Voila!
I did search, but may be I missed it.
Is it possible to move the complete 'my documents' folder to the SDHC card?
So it will free up memory and make it possible to put more files in that folder and sub folders?
Thanks for your reply.
Greetings,
Patrick Schouten
The Netherlands
Not sure if I understood you correctly...
There's nothing stopping you from storing your files on your storage card rather than the My Documents folder in main memory. And you're allowed to move files around as you please...
ohyeahar said:
Not sure if I understood you correctly...
There's nothing stopping you from storing your files on your storage card rather than the My Documents folder in main memory. And you're allowed to move files around as you please...
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No, that was not what I mend.
Some programs are saving files and go by default to the 'my documents' folder.
I would like to have this default folder on my storage card. So I suspect I have to tweak some registry settings to point all 'my document' paths to the storage card.
I was just wondering if there is some application, easy tweak or cab that will help me to change all these paths in de registry.
hey guys. i have a Samsung Code (i believe SCH-I220) with Windows Mobile 6.1...i'm wondering if there's a way to change the paths for the My Documents and Program Files folders to direct to those same folders in the Storage Card...
meaning, i copy/pasted both folders to my storage card, so i would like to delete the original folders (to free phone memory) and have all programs, ringtones, etc that are linking to program files/ or my documents/my ringtones, etc, to redirect to storage card/program files/ or storage card/my documents/my ringtones.
i've tried searching through the registry but i dont see values for the installed programs that I could change.
is this doable? if so, can you explain how to do it?
thanks!
I have seen someone asking how to move the OneNote files to Storage Card. I'm surprising that there's not a method on internet so far(Maybe there is but I did not find). Now I write down my solution here, it's really simple to do this:
Install the OneNote Mobile 2007 separatelly to \Storage Card, then you can find that all your OneNote attachments will be stored in "\Storage Card\Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile\"
Or you can change the Reg settings "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile\12.0\Attachments" to \Storage Card. Then your new OneNote's attachments will be saved in Storage Card. And when you sync from PC, the synced files will be saved in Storage Card too.
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I have seen someone asking how to move the OneNote files to Storage Card. I'm surprising that there's not a method on internet so far(Maybe there is but I did not find). Now I write down my solution here, it's really simple to do this:
Install the OneNote Mobile 2007 separatelly to \Storage Card, then you can find that all your OneNote attachments will be stored in "\Storage Card\Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile\"
Or you can change the Reg settings "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OneNote Mobile\12.0\Attachments" to \Storage Card. Then your new OneNote's attachments will be saved in Storage Card. And when you sync from PC, the synced files will be saved in Storage Card too.
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thanks so mucccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhh...
i almost buy new phone that have more space in ROM because this problem , but after read your solution . i can smile and keep my money. thanks !
Onenote stiil inflexible
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